Intel Core i7-9800X vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

Compare Intel Core X-series 8 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6761 points

9% slightly better overall score

6163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8246 points

4% slightly better gaming score

7894 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6264 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

5606 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6133 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

5474 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.68 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

148.55 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7128 points

7536 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1345 points

1792 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7552 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7407 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1400 points

1713 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.7 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W

15 W

1000% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

5 MiB

16 MiB

220% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 1,089

242nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-9800X vs Ryzen 7 6800U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9800X beats the Ryzen 7 6800U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 6800U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 6800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 6800U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800U outputs less heat than Core i7-9800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-9800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.